Thomas Hickey

Thomas Hickey (died 28 June 1776) was an Irish soldier who served in the British Army from 1754 until 1775, when he enlisted as a soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was also a member of the Knights Templar group, and was sent to murder George Washington in order to replace him with General Charles Lee, a Templar in the Continentals. However, the plot was discovered and he was executed for treason.

Biography
Hickey was born in Ireland but immigrated to the Thirteen Colonies, where he enlisted in the British Army in 1754, fighting in the French and Indian War alongside General William Johnson, a fellow Irishman who was the commander of a large British army in the Ohio Valley.

One day, he met with Haytham Kenway, a member of the Knights Templar, and joined him alongside William Johnson, Charles Lee, Benjamin Church, and John Pitcairn. Hickey suggested that they murder General Silas Thatcher, a British officer in charge of the Southgate Fortress, who was involved in the trafficking of the Mohawk, in order to find out the Mohawks' secret lands. They succeeded, with Church shooting Thatcher in the forehead after he was captured in the storming of the fort in 1756. Afterwards, he worked with William Johnson in smuggling tea into the Thirteen Colonies, especially after the Stamp Act, which placed the price of tea higher, and they made a mint off of selling tea for cheaper prices.

After Johnson's death in 1774, he became a solo counterfeiter, and in 1775, joined the Continental Army. In 1776, Haytham Kenway told him to murder General George Washington so that Charles Lee could become General, and he joined his private guard during the Battle of Brooklyn Heights and many other battles in New York.

Death
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